Learning to Forget Tibet in China (op-ed by Woeser)

posted Sep 2, 2014, 5:33 PM by The Tibetan Political Review

By TSERING WOESER

The New York Times

AUG. 14, 2014

In
1981, the year I graduated from junior high school in Kangding in the
Tibetan region of Kham, high schools in China’s heartland were starting
to recruit ethnic minorities like me. In official parlance, this was the
beginning of what was to become a larger “Help Tibet” campaign.
Minority students were plucked from their native villages to be
“cultivated” in Chinese schools in order to serve their people and the
nation.